A short essay of comparison and contrast:   Many people in weste and easte cultures believe that “ birds of a feather flock together”, in a sense that our social rank, economic status and level of literacy should fit our friends’ in order to have a better mutual understanding and enjoy the benefits ...

Wind-catchers are instruments, used in Iran's desert regions (and after Iran, also in some Middle-Easte and north-African countries) , by which wind is led into the traditionally designed houses,

An expository short essay: We had just lea t how to mimic such disyllabic words as “mama”, “papa”, “dada” when we were told we had to be afraid of “ doggy”_the very same horrifying creature to whi

People in many cultures tend to honour a iversaries of their spiritual figures’ death, but there is a stepped village in west of Iran, the inhabitants of which every year celebrate the a iversary o

Everyone needs to have a unique story to tell. So, I have been a lucky one to have more than one. Perhaps, one of the most exciting and positive experiences of my life was an 11-day jou ey which I w

 A Short Note of Self-evaluation conce ing the Rate of Progress in  the Course Advanced Writing I am obliged to the course _ examples, exercises_ for the process help me experience a different type of writing, lead me to narrow down my ideas, and force me to find better collocations and structures i...

Dear Dr Anani,Following the syllabus for the course Advanced Writing, I have written the cover letter to explain to you what  course works I have posted on my weblog during the  semester.A short piece of writing about observations was probably the first post, followed by a 3 paragraph essay on acade...

It has been unfortunately proven by our tireless and repetitive efforts to the world's public opinion that many of us, the Iranian, are incapable of respecting other's privacy, even and especially in cyberspace. The serious case probably began when, in FIFA World Cup group matches, an Australian ref...

A short essay of comparison and contrast: Many people in weste and easte cultures believe that “ birds of a feather flock together”, in a sense that our social rank, economic status and level of literacy should fit our friends’ in order to have a better mutual understanding and enjoy the benefits of...

All they had_ if limited, inconsiderable and immaterial_ were to offer freehandedly even to unfamiliar guests, an unbelievable fact beyond the general myth, that we_ all Iranians_ are the most generous, which contradicts our real everyday lives. Although many of them, esp. the older, didn't speak Fa...

Would life be worth living if there were no affection and affinity? The answer is up to you, but mine and John Do e’s are “ absolutely no, it wouldn't”. The last stanza of his The Sun Rising suggest a comparison between the warmth and importance of

Wind-catchers are instruments, used in Iran's desert regions (and after Iran, also in some Middle-Easte and north-African countries) , by which wind is led into the traditionally designed houses, vaults, mines etc. by passing through a little po

All they had_ if limited, inconsiderable and immaterial_ were to offer freehandedly even to unfamiliar guests, an unbelievable fact beyond the general myth, that we_ all Iranians_ are the most generous, which contradicts our real everyday lives

An extremely natural contrast conveyed drawn in a most atypical_and sometimes even hard- to-follow_way possible was the first thing that came to mind, having read Naming of Parts , a poem by Henry Reed. But,what elements comprise the natural part,

Summary: Two old men—Ivan and Burkin—walk across the fields. Ivan prepares to tell his friend a story . At this point a storm breaks and the men run to shelter at their friend Aliokhin's estate. They find the forty year-old standing in one of his ba

Narrating the story- mostly, if not completely- through dialogues can be one of the best choices to maintain an objective point of view, which in Gerard Genette's focalization theory could be referred to as exte al focalizer, or behaviorist. This is exactly what Hemingway does, but all he did. Altho...

A short literary analysis of James Joyce's short story regarding its viewpoint and characterizationReza Asri Adhering to an inte al focalizer, Joyce tries to reveal i er feelings and reactions of Little Chandler, an adolescent-type married man who

What if we all had to share all we kept in our black boxes, our constant companions, our mobile phonesi th those supposed to be our nearest !? Would we be honest enough or had we been so? Wasn't it better to keep the secret guarded to preserve a fam

"You'd sell your soul to find the great truth... well, human life doesn't have great truths. We're bo in doubt. We spend our lives persuading ourselves we're alive..."says Emily, an anthropologist, to her future husband, Eddie, a psychologist

Art is something _a concept, an emotion, a feeling, an impact of a mixture of all_ if to share, worth sharing, conveyed in perceptible and proper way, in harmony with the goal and audience ; One must have something conveyable and utilize the most be